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W.R. Grace to Pay for Cleanup of Asbestos Contamination in Libby, Montana
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- W.R. Grace, a global supplier of specialty chemicals, has agreed to pay $250 million, the highest sum in the history of the Superfund program, to reimburse the federal government for...
Atlantic Richfield Company Agrees to Pay $187 Million for Montana Superfund Cleanup
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007, or the Environmental Protection Agency, +1-406-457- 5030 BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Atlantic Richfield Company ARCO has agreed to pay $187 million that will finance a major cleanup along 120 miles of the...
Three Parties Agree to Pay for Cleanup of Iron Horse Park Superfund Site in Massachusetts
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007, or TDD, +1-202-514-1888; or Environmental Protection Agency, +1-617-918-1017 WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- Boston and Maine Corp., BNZ Materials Inc., and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority MBTA, have agreed to perform environmental cleanup work expected...
Insurance Company Agrees to Pay $42.5 Million for Environmental Cleanup at Former Fruit of the Loom Facilities
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Company, Inc. AISLIC, has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities in a suit in which the Department...
Second Largest U.S. Copper Producer Implements Comprehensive Cleanup at Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007; or Environmental Protection Agency, +1-303-312-6803 WASHINGTON, July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation Kennecott, the second largest copper producer in the United States, has agreed to implement a comprehensive cleanup of groundwater contamination from past mining operations related to the Bingham...
Federal Agreement Ensures Funding for Cleanup of Beede Waste Oil Site in Plaistow, New Hampshire
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice: ENRD, +1-202-514-2007, or TDD, +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The federal government and state of New Hampshire today reached a comprehensive settlement agreement with 101 potentially responsible parties which will ensure cleanup actions at the 41-acre Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site in...
EPEC Polymers Agrees to Settlement Worth $23.4 Million to Clean Up Texas Superfund Site
To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, March 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- EPEC Polymers Inc., headquartered in Houston, has reached a settlement worth an estimated $23.4 million regarding the Petro-Chemical Systems Inc. Superfund Site in Liberty County, Texas, the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency EPA announced today....
Government Settlements Ensure Cleanup of Contaminated Sites in New Jersey
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency EPA announced today that they have reached separate agreements with NCH Corporation NCH and FMC Corporation FMC to resolve claims against them relating to the costs of cleanup at the Higgins Farm and Higgins Disposal...
Second sentenced for waste mishandling.(TALK OF THE TRADE)
Behzad Kahoolyzadeh was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison and asked to pay $1.29 million in cleanup costs for conspiracy to improperly store and transport hazardous drycleaning wastes, the Justice Department announced recently. Kahoolyzadeh pleaded guilty in 2004 to the charges. The...
Former Harbor Island Smelter Operator To Pay $8.5 Million In Superfund Cleanup Costs
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- RSR Corp. and its subsidiaries, Quemetco Inc. and QRI Inc., RSR have agreed to pay $8.5 million to resolve RSR's liability for cleanup costs relating to the contamination of Harbor Island, the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency EPA announced today. The...
Municipal, Corporate Parties Will Pay $13.9 Million for Cleanup of Major Superfund Site Near Denver
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency today announced a settlement under which the City and County of Denver, Waste Management of Colorado, Inc., and six other companies agreed to pay $13.9 million to reimburse money spent by the United States in...
Firms to help restore polluted site
Byline: Miles Moore Goodyear, Bridgestone/Firestone and three other companies have agreed to continue environmental remediation at a Superfund site near Uniontown, Ohio, as well as reimburse the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency nearly $18 million for cleanup work already performed at the location. Both Goodyear and...
Meeting on Fox River Cleanup Agreement Oct. 29, 7 P.M., at Neenah Public Library
News Advisory: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 and the U.S. Department of Justice will host a meeting to provide information and answer questions about a recent $50 million settlement with two paper companies to pay for cleanup of the Little Lake Butte des Morts section of Wisconsin's Lower Fox...
Asarco Creditors Keep Eyes on Ruston, Wash., Smelter Cleanup.
By Les Blumenthal, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--WASHINGTON--The next two weeks could be crucial for Asarco as it struggles to avoid bankruptcy by renegotiating cleanup schedules at its Ruston smelter and other Superfund sites and avert...
ASARCO - Panorama: Regional - US Justice Department blocks sale of its stake in Southern Peru Copper - Brief Article
ASARCO, an Arizona-based unit of copper mining company Grupo Mexico, was blocked by the U.S. Justice Department from selling a stake in Southern Peru Copper Corp., another holding of Grupo Mexico. The U.S. government says the sale is a strategy to save Asarco from paying a US$60 million cleanup of...
Deal set to pay for suburban site cleanup.(47 alleged waste generators agree to Superfund site clean-up plan)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Byline: Crain News Service The U.S. Department of Justice and federal and Illinois environmental officials have reached an agreement with 47 alleged waste generators to help fund the cleanup of a Superfund site near west suburban Lemont. The co Byline:...
Mexican-Owned Mining Company Asarco Raises Suspicions with Sale.
By Nancy Gaarder, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 26--The Justice Department is alleging that Asarco, which it says is responsible for environmental contamination around the country, including Omaha, is fraudulently trying to shift ownership of its most valuable...
Enviro woes mount for Kmart; Gov't seeks millions from retailer.(Department of Justice seeks $128 million from Kmart Corp. to cleanup Superfund sites: Beede Waste Oil site in Plaistow, N.H.; Hows Corner site in Plymouth, Maine; Jack Goins site in Clevelan
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a claim July 30 against Kmart Corp. in the federal bankruptcy court in Chicago seeking $22 million in past costs and $128 million in future costs related to the cleanup of five Superfund sites. The U.S....
Newport News, Va., Officials Say Smithfield Penalty Should Help Clean River.
By Peter Dujardin, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 18--NEWPORT NEWS, Va. A group of local officials wants the $12.3 million federal fine against pork processor Smithfield Foods to go toward cleaning up the local river that the company polluted....
Generators pay for industrial cleanup.(Ford Motor Co. pays for Cuyahoga Valley National Park industrial waste cleanup)(Brief Article)
Ford Motor Co. is taking responsibility for a $30 million cleanup of a former industrial dumpsite in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in northeastern Ohio. Ford was one of several companies that used the Krejci site during the 1950s and 1960...
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